JERUSALEM (AFP-EJP)—The crisis with key ally the United States over housing construction east Jerusalem has ended, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Netanyahu called (Vice President Joe) Biden and both agreed the crisis is behind them,” an official in the premier’s office said. Read More »
STOCKHOLM (AFP)—A Stockholm court allowed the extradition to Poland of Swedish former neo-Nazi leader Anders Hoegstroem to face trial for the theft of a sign from the one-time Auschwitz death camp, a prosecutor said. Read More »
WASHINGTON (AFP)—The United States Thursday denounced “new forms” of anti-Semitism, saying criticism of Israel and Zionism had led to a rise of anti-Jewish sentiment around the world in 2009. Read More »
STRASBOURG (EJP)—The European Parliament on Thursday urged Hamas to release “immediately” captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, in the first such resolution adopted unanimously by show of hands. Read More »
BRUSSELS (EJP)—A doctor and university professor was elected Tuesday new president of the umbrella representative body of Jewish secular organizations in Belgium, known as CCOJB. Read More »
BRUSSELS (EJP)—EU’s foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday joined US vice-president Joe Biden in condemning the Israeli government’s plan to build 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem and asked Israel to reverse its decision. Read More »
STRASBOURG (EJP)—Despite intense lobbying efforts from Jewish groups and attempts by the Christian-Democrats to prevent a vote, the European Parliament adopted Wednesday in Strasbourg a joint resolution urging “both sides” to follow up the Goldstone Report’s conclusions by conducting “investigations within five months”. Read More »
STRASBOURG (EJP)—The European Parliament, the EU’s legislative body, which is meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg, will vote on Wednesday whether or not to adopt the Goldstone report on the Gaza war. Read More »
JERUSALEM (AFP-EJP)— Israel’s foreign ministry said that it has authorised a visit to the Gaza Strip by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton through its territory. Read More »
The Falash Mura are the descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity, many of them under duress, in the 18th and 19th centuries. Read More »
VIENNA (AFP)—An extreme-right candidate for Austria’s presidential election has brought the country’s dark past to the surface once more, after denouncing a law banning Nazi groups and Holocaust denial. Read More »
BRUSSELS (EJP)—Noam Shalit, father of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since June 2006, will meet the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, in Strasbourg on Thursday morning. Read More »
CAIRO (AFP-EJP)—The 19th-century synagogue of Maimonides in Cairo’s ancient Jewish quarter reopened Sunday after a nearly two-year restoration by Egyptian authorities. Some 150 people attended the opening, including Yitzhak Levanon and Margaret Scobey, the ambassadors of Israel and the United States respectively. Read More »
JERUSALEM (AFP)—US Vice President Joe Biden was to arrive in the Middle East on Monday with Israel and the Palestinians on the cusp of opening indirect peace talks after a break in negotiations of more than a year. Read More »
JERUSALEM (EJP)—Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Jerusalem, posthumously honored Michalina Jasko from Poland as Righteous Among the Nations, during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance on Sunday. Read More »
CORDOBA (AFP-EJP)—EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said Saturday she hopes to get into the Gaza Strip during her Middle East trip this month, as Europe pushes for renewed peace talks. Ashton said she plans to travel to Israel on March 17, her first trip there since assuming her post in January. Read More »
VIENNA —-500 young European Jews aged 18-35 from 30 countries participated last weekend in Vienna in a “Purim on the Rocks” event. Read More »
BRUSSELS (EJP)—EU’s contribution to relaunching the Middle East peace process is one of the main topics to be discussed at an informal meeting of European Union Foreign Ministers this weekend in Cordoba, Spain. Read More »
HOLLYWOOD (AFP)—Anti-war, anti-imperialist, anti-Semitic, anti-social, racist: this year’s Oscars best picture contenders have faced a barrage of criticism from groups and commentators eager to exploit the media frenzy surrounding the Academy Awards to draw attention to their causes. Read More »
BRASILIA (AFP)—President Jose luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Lula will be the first Brazilian president to visit Israel on March 16-17 and will take the opportunity to also visit the Palestinian territories, the Brazilian foreign ministry said. Read More »
TORONTO (EJP)—Anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise in Canada, an annual report by the B’nai B’rith organization said. In its “ Audit of Antisemitic Incidents ,” an annual study on patterns of prejudice in Canada, the Jewish human rights organization says in tota, 1,264 incidents were reported, representing an 11. Read More »
VIENNA (AFP)—In a statement, the EU told a 35-nation meeting in Vienna that Europe supports new UN Security Council “action” if Iran continues its nuclear defiance, diplomatic language for a fourth set of U.N. sanctions. The European Union says it shares UN fears that Tehran may be secretly working on developing nuclear weapons. Read More »
BRUSSELS (EJP)—Daniel Seaman, director of the Israel Government Press Office, said Israel will soon announce its opinion on the Al-Dura affair, the controversial French television report about the killing of a 12-year-oldPalestinian boy during the second intifada in September 2000. Read More »
AACHEN (AFP)—German prosecutors called Tuesday for a life sentence to be passed on a 88-year-old man on trial after admitting to gunning down three Dutch civilians in 1944 while part of an SS hit squad. Read More »
Anti-Semitic incidents were also on the rise, as was the number of anti-Semitic comments in leading British media. Read More »
BRUSSELS (EJP)—Editors of Jewish magazines across Europe stressed the need to preserve the specificity of an active and diverse Jewish press open to the world and defending Jewish values, at the first conference of Jewish media in Europe which took place last Thursday in Brussels. Read More »
PARIS-BRUSSELS (EJP)—On the eve of a discussion on the Goldstone Report in the European Parliament in Brussels, European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor warned that a negative resolution “could affect Israeli-European relations. Read More »
BRUSSELS (EJP)—A doctor and university professor, Maurice Sosnowski, is set to become the next president of CCOJB, the umbrella representative body of Jewish secular organizations in Belgium, after his rival dropped his candidacy on Monday. Read More »
BERLIN (AFP)—Five years after opening a sprawling Holocaust Memorial in the heart of the city, Berlin is preparing to inaugurate a major new museum, this time targeting the Nazi perpetrators. The new “Topography of Terror” centre rests on the site of the former headquarters of both the feared Gestapo and Hitler’s elite SS force. Read More »
BRUSSELS (EJP)—Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, considers the recent Israeli government decision to add sites in Hebron and Bethlehem to the list of Israeli national heritage sites as “detrimental to attempts to re-launch peace negotiations. Read More »
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